Neighbourhood Policing Pledge
Cumbria Constabulary and Cumbria’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner have launched a new pledge centred around neighbourhood policing.
The new pledge aligns us to the national pillars of Neighbourhood Policing and ensures we deliver the government Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee.
The pledge focuses on ten core priority areas of neighbourhood policing:
- Neighbourhood Policing Model
- Maintaining a dedicated a Neighbourhood Policing model for each locality supported by PCSOs and Special Constables
- Contact and accessibility
- ensuring NPTs are visible and easily accessible
- Increasing dedicated neighbourhood resources
- a commitment to dedicated Special Constables within each NPT
- Rural Crime Team
- Maintaining the dedicate rural crime team following its successful implementation
- Improving equipment and technology
- Investing in equipment and tech to improve the capability of each NPT
- Engagement, Visibility and Reassurance
- Engaging with communities and providing a visible, reassuring presence through community meetings
- Communication
- improving our communication with local communities
- Tackling crime and anti-social behaviour
- Listening to our communities and working with partners to address ASB and crime
- Making our roads safer
- adopting a partnership approach around prevention, communication and engagement to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on our roads
- Developing our Neighbourhood workforce
- committing to the College of Policing’s future roll out of the Neighbourhood Policing Programme
Chief Constable Rob Carden, together with Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner David Allen, launched the pledge today at an event at Cumbria Police Headquarters in Penrith.
A number of elected local councillors also attended the event where the structure of the pledge was outlined along with the key deliverables of how we will measure performance.
Chief Constable Rob Carden said: “Cumbria Police is committed to neighbourhood policing, which remains firmly at the heart of the organisation.
“Cumbria and its geography bring some unique policing challenges, with many rural communities and around 42.2 million visitors into the Lake District every year.
“These challenges highlight the real need for maintaining a positive relationship with our residents, business owners and visitors and building trust and confidence in our policing response.
“This pledge further reinforces our ongoing commitment to providing a quality policing service for the people of Cumbria through providing a visible policing presence and prompt response to issues you say matter the most.
“I am proud to be launching this new pledge today, in partnership with the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner, which sets out how we will deliver this service to our communities and what our communities can expect from us.”
David Allen, Cumbria's Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner said: "I promised the public that I would put Police back on the beat, with named visible officers that they know and trust.
" I understand how important to you seeing named police officers in your local communities is, preventing and tackling anti-social behaviour, theft and crime. Residents bring this up with me time and time again, I am listening to you and today's pledge is about responding to what the public want from their police force.
"I started my career as a Neighbourhood Bobby, I know communities want to see named officers in their communities, this is the start of that journey, and I will be working with the Chief Constable to build on our neighbourhood policing model."
The public can find out who their named local Police Officers are by visiting Your area | Cumbria Police
The pledge will be monitored by Cumbria's Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner David Allen where he will be able to measure the Force’s progress at a local level.
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